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Borrell: EU to Give Ukraine 500 Million Euros for Weapons

Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 4:28 pm
by claireokc
The European Union is giving Ukraine another 500 million euros ($520 million) to buy heavy weapons to fend off the Russian invasion, the bloc’s foreign affairs chief said Friday at a gathering of top diplomats from the Group of Seven (G-7) wealthy nations. Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign policy, said he was also hopeful of getting the bloc’s member nations to agree to an oil embargo against Russia soon, despite misgivings from some countries. “We will provide a new tranche of 500 more million to support the military of Ukraine,” Borrell told reporters ahead of the G-7 meeting in Weissenhaus, on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast. ...

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